LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On 5th May, 1943, the Wells life-boat took part in an interesting service in which the R.A.F. for the first time dropped an airborne life-boat to a 'ditched' bomber crew off the East Anglian coast. The 'ditched' crew received... - View image in PDF

Five members of the United States Coast Guard lost their lives in an attempted rescue at the mouth of the Columbia River on the 12th of January, 1961, when three life-boats put out to the help of a crab boat. One of the life- boats, a...

LIST OF PERSONS on whom the Committee of Management have conferred (prior to 31st December, 1907) the Decoration of the Institution for conspicuous and special services in the Life-boat cause other than actual personal...

JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 34 times and rescued 31 lives.

ANGLERS IN DISTRESS IN PLYMOUTH SOUND Plymouth, Devon.—At 12.8 early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the Yealm...

JANUARY 5TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 12.50 A.M. news was received through the coastguard that an S.O.S. had been sent out by the Union Castle Line steamer Rothesay Castle. She was a vessel of over 7,000 tons and bound from New York to...

MONTHOSE.—A heavy storm was experienced on the llth March, the wind blowing a whole gale from the E.S.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, snow, and sleet. At 11.35 A.M., the No 1 Life-boat Augusta, was launched,"and was towed by the...

Signals of distress called out the Life- boat Forster Fawsett at 4.40 A.M. on the 16th February. She found the steamer Chr. Ghristensen, of Copenhagen, ashore on the south end of the Longstone Island, where she had stranded whilst bound to...

DURING July, 1968, the track to the life-boat station at Kirkcudbright, Scotland, was repaired by a squadron of Royal Engineers. The station is four miles from the town and about a mile from the public road, access being by a private track...